While summer may be coming, iPads are going— or at least graduating seniors iPads and Google accounts are, as well as other old technology being reset automatically.

By July 1 all seniors’ District Google accounts will be disabled and school technology staff are warning other students to backup their work or it may be lost over the summer.

“There is no buy out program.We clear [former senior’ iPads] so their information doesn’t get out and for privacy,” Ryan Nardiello, Network and Telecom Engineer, said. “The only downfall to clearing the iPads is if the senior forgot to backup something.”

Although seniors are the only students having to turn in their iPads, all students iPads will be getting reset this summer and students are being warned to backup.

“First you go into settings and then you go into one of the options and under that you click backup in the menu. Then you’ll do backup now,” Jessie Houghton, soptimize iAgent, said. “It’ll tell you when your most recent backup was.”

Although students are having to backup their work, a change from last summer, another new problem that occured this past year was when a large amount of students downloaded an app where students are “using their iPad incorrectly,” according to Houghton.

“Last year, a problem that happened was people were downloading VPNs, which for the school’s internet, it would allow them access to get through the firewall so they can go on any websites, download any apps they wanted to. So that was a problem,” Jake Stevens, junior iAgent, said.

To prevent problems like these occurring in middle school, the younger grades are limited to the apps they may download.

“[Middle Schoolers] have access to the app store, but due to school policy they are not allowed to download anything that is not specifically on the download list,” Nardiello said. “High schoolers, they can download anything.”

With the freedom to download any apps comes consequences if a student goes beyond the expectations or rules and their privileges might be changed “due to dean discretion,” according to Nardiello.

“You can have your app store taken off, but no apps are blocked at the high school just websites,” Stevens said.

Students must be aware of new updates and changes with technology to ensure that no work will be lost when the iPads are wiped clean this summer.